Adoption studies:
a. Lack the control of a real experiment because researchers cannot manipulate the adoption variable
b. Have shown that rearing children apart from their biological parents has no effect on their intelligence
c. Are worse than family studies in determining the heritability of a trait
d. Completely control for environmental influences
A
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a. self-report b. survey c. behavioral d. physiological
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Without science, personality psychology would certainly lose the power of the scientific method.
If categories are represented by numbers (e.g., 1 = Democrat, 2 = Republican), the categories are said to be:
A. pseudonumbered. B. dummy-coded. C. nominalized. D. transformed.
Students in integrated classrooms who compare themselves to high-achieving peers often feel ________ about themselves. The term ________ is used for this phenomenon.
A. better; bird-in-the-hand effect B. worse; upward-social-comparison effect C. worse; big fish-little pond effect D. better; standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants effect